There Will Be No 2nd American Revolution: The Futility of an Armed Revolt

There Will
Be No Second American Revolution: The Futility of an Armed Revolt

“A standing military force, with
an overgrown Executive will not long be safe companions to liberty.”—James Madison

America is a ticking time bomb.

All that remains to be seen is who—or
what—will set fire to the fuse.

We are poised at what seems to be the
pinnacle of a manufactured breakdown, with police shooting unarmed citizens,
snipers shooting police, global and domestic violence rising, and a political
showdown between two presidential candidates equally matched in unpopularity.

The preparations for the Republican and
Democratic national conventions taking place in Cleveland and
Philadelphia—augmented by a $50 million federal
security grant for each
city—provide a foretaste of how the government plans to deal with any
individual or group that steps out of line: they will be censored, silenced,
spied on, caged, intimidated, interrogated, investigated, recorded, tracked,
labeled, held at gunpoint, detained, restrained, arrested, tried and found
guilty.

A 2008 Army War College report revealed that “widespread civil violence
inside the United States would force the defense establishment to reorient
priorities in extremis to defend basic domestic order and human security.” The
44-page report goes on to warn that potential causes for such civil unrest
could include another terrorist attack, “unforeseen economic collapse, loss of functioning
political and legal order,
purposeful domestic resistance or insurgency, pervasive public health
emergencies, and catastrophic natural and human disasters.”

Subsequent reports by the Department of
Homeland Security to identify, monitor and label right-wing and left-wing
activists and military veterans
as extremists (a.k.a. terrorists) have manifested into full-fledged pre-crime
surveillance programs. Almost a decade later, after locking down the nation and
spending billions to fight terrorism, the DHS has concluded that the greater threat is not ISIS but domestic right-wing extremism.

Rounding out this profit-driven
campaign to turn American citizens into enemy combatants (and America into a
battlefield) is a technology sector that is colluding with the government to create
a Big Brother that is all-knowing, all-seeing
and inescapable. It’s not just
the drones, fusion centers, license plate readers, stingray devices and
the NSA that you have to worry about. You’re also being tracked by the black boxes in your cars, your cell phone, smart devices in your home,
grocery loyalty cards, social media accounts, credit cards, streaming services
such as Netflix, Amazon, and e-book reader accounts.

All of this has taken place right under
our noses, funded with our taxpayer dollars and carried out in broad daylight
without so much as a general outcry from the citizenry.

It’s astounding how convenient we’ve
made it for the government to lock down the nation.

We’ve even allowed ourselves to be
acclimated to the occasional lockdown of government buildings, Jade Helm military drills in small towns so that special
operations forces can get “realistic military
training” in “hostile”
territory, and Live Active Shooter Drill training exercises, carried out at
schools, in shopping malls, and on public transit, which can and do fool law
enforcement officials, students, teachers and bystanders into thinking it’s a
real crisis.

The events of recent years—the invasive
surveillance, the extremism reports, the civil unrest, the protests, the
shootings, the bombings, the military exercises and active shooter drills, the
color-coded alerts and threat assessments, the fusion centers, the
transformation of local police into extensions of the military, the
distribution of military equipment and weapons to local police forces, the
government databases containing the names of dissidents and potential
troublemakers—have all conjoined to create an environment in which “we the
people” are more distrustful and fearful of each other and more reliant on the
government to keep us safe.

Of course, that’s the point.

The powers-that-be want us to feel
vulnerable.

They want us to fear each other and
trust the government’s hired gunmen to keep us safe from terrorists,
extremists, jihadists, psychopaths, etc.

Most of all, the powers-that-be want us
to feel powerless to protect ourselves and reliant on and grateful for the
dubious protection provided by the American police state.

There is no place in our nation for the
kind of armed revolution our forefathers mounted against a tyrannical Great
Britain. Such an act would be futile and tragic. We are no longer dealing with
a distant, imperial king but with a tyrant of our own making: a militarized,
technologized, heavily-financed bureaucratic machine that operates beyond the
reach of the law.

The message being sent to the citizenry
is clear: there will be no revolution, armed or otherwise.

Anyone who believes that they can
wage—and win—an armed revolt against the American police state has not been
paying attention. Those who wage violence against the government and their
fellow citizens are playing right into the government’s hands. Violence cannot
and will not be the answer to what ails America.

Whether instigated by the government or
the citizenry, violence will only lead to more violence. It does not matter how
much firepower you have. The government has more firepower.

It does not matter how long you think
you can hold out by relying on survivalist skills, guerilla tactics and sheer
grit. The government has the resources to outwait, out-starve, outman, outgun
and generally overpower you.

This government of wolves will not be
overtaken by force.

Unfortunately, we waited too long to wake
up to the government’s schemes.

What the government failed to explain
was that the domestic terrorists would be of the government’s own making,
whether intentional or not.

By waging endless wars abroad, by
bringing the instruments of war home, by transforming police into extensions of
the military, by turning a free society into a suspect society, by treating
American citizens like enemy combatants, by discouraging and criminalizing a
free exchange of ideas, by making violence its calling card through SWAT team
raids and militarized police, by fomenting division and strife among the
citizenry, by acclimating the citizenry to the sights and sounds of war, and by
generally making peaceful revolution all but impossible, the government has
engineered an environment in which domestic violence has become inevitable.

What we are now experiencing is a civil
war, devised and instigated in part by the U.S. government.

The outcome for this particular
conflict is already foregone: the police state wins.

The objective: compliance and control.

The strategy: destabilize the economy
through endless wars, escalate racial tensions, polarize the populace, heighten
tensions through a show of force, intensify the use of violence, and then, when
all hell breaks loose, clamp down on the nation for the good of the people and
the security of the nation.

So where does that leave us?

Despite the fact that communities
across the country are, for all intents and purposes, being held hostage by a
government that is armed to the teeth and more than willing to use force in
order to “maintain order,” most Americans seem relatively unconcerned. Worse,
we have become so fragmented as a nation, so hostile to those with whom we
might disagree, so distrustful of those who are different from us, that we are
easily divided and conquered.

We have been desensitized to violence,
acclimated to a military presence in our communities and persuaded that there
is nothing we can do to alter the seemingly hopeless trajectory of the nation.
In this way, the floundering economy, the blowback arising from military
occupations abroad, police shootings, the nation’s deteriorating infrastructure
and all of the other mounting concerns have become non-issues to a populace
that is easily entertained, distracted, manipulated and controlled.

The sight of police clad in body armor
and gas masks, wielding semiautomatic rifles and escorting an armored vehicle
through a crowded street, a scene likened to “a military patrol through
a hostile city,” no longer
causes alarm among the general populace.

We are fast becoming an anemic, weak,
pathetically diluted offspring of our revolutionary forebears incapable of
mounting a national uprising against a tyrannical regime.

If there is to be any hope of
reclaiming our government and restoring our freedoms, it will require a
different kind of coup: nonviolent, strategic and grassroots, starting locally
and trickling upwards. Such revolutions are slow and painstaking. They are
political, in part, but not through any established parties or politicians.

Most of all, as I make clear in my book
Battlefield America: The War on the American People,
for any chance of success, such a revolution will require more than a change of
politics: it will require a change of heart among the American people, a
reawakening of the American spirit, and a citizenry that cares more about their
freedoms than their fantasy games.

As I’ve
said for the past 25 years “We don’t need another election, We need another
revolution!”

Yours for better living,

Bruce ‘the Poor Man’

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